How to Design a 1980s Movie Poster in Photoshop. In this article, we’re going to start by looking at a few inspirational movie posters from the 1980s which we’ll use for inspiration. Then, we’re going to use Adobe Photoshop to create a 1980′s style movie poster for our fictitious film titled “The Designer’s Mansion.” This tutorial is aimed for designers with a fair understanding of Photoshop. If you follow this tutorial, please feel free to post a link to your final product in the comments area below. We’d love to see it!
Let’s get started! Here are 10 inspirational posters from 1980-89. 1980: The Blues Brothers A really lovely and inspirational ’80s poster that uses a limited color scheme and simple shapes to create a poster with a twist. 1981: Chariots Of Fire This poster is brought to life by the purposefully worn and noisy photograph, and it’s finished off with classic typography. 1982: A Little Sex Modern typography was clearly an inspiration in the ’80s! 1983: Scarface 1984: The Terminator 1985: Day of the Dead 1986: Under the Cherry Moon. Put a low-poly spin on music cover art - Tutorials - Page 1. Blog.SpoonGraphics. How to Create a Self-Portrait in a Geometric Style. In this tutorial we’re going to talk about how to create an illustrated self-portrait in a geometric style.
We’ll be using a photograph of ourselves as the base of the illustration, drawing a sketch from that, and then creating the final piece. Let’s get started! Since posting this tutorial, readers have been inspired to create their own self portraits in this style. Check out what they’ve achieved over on a special edition of Tuts+ Workshop: Created by You. First, we take or select a photo. Now, create a New Document (cmd+N or ctrl+N) in Adobe Illustrator with an artboard size of 600 x 480px. We are going to organize the layers as follows: The top layer is named “Draw”.
Lock the "Background" and "Photo" layers. Now you can delete the "Photo" layer. Change the Opacity of the sketch to 30% and lock the "Sketch" layer. Now, start drawing from back to front using the Pen Tool (P). For the t-shirt, just draw one half of it, then Copy (Cmd + C) and Paste in front (Cmd + F). 50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials.
Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials May 2 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 29 Comments Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories.
You can notice that retro and vintage design is created by using rich colors, grunge elements and various textures. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced. Unique Photoshop Tutorial - PSD Vault. Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop. The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new.
Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer. The design we’ll be building is made up of a range of abstract shards that spread across the page at 45 degree angles. As each layer is overlapped with various gradients and blending modes the design soon starts to develop a cool and vibrant futuristic theme as the colours interact with each other. Mixing this up with a couple of paper and cardboard textures then adds a twist to the digital design, making it feel more tactile and weathered.
Open up Photoshop and create a new document. Fill the background with a dark blue, such as #171a8b. Use a large soft brush to dab two spots of colour onto a new layer. Download the source file.